Richard Pillard

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Richard C. Pillard is a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Pillard received his B.A. from Antioch College and his M.D. from University of Rochester.

Pillard is well-known for a series of studies he coauthored with J. Michael Bailey, which examined the rate of concordance of sexual identity among monozygotic twins, dizygotic twins of the same sex, non-twin siblings of the same sex, and adoptive siblings of the same sex. In all studies they found rates of concordance variantly consistent with the hypothesis that homosexuality has a significant genetic component. The Council for Responsible Genetics and other researchers have criticized this work for using a self-selected sample, a problem which later studies have attempted to remedy.

Pillard feels that some of his most significant work deals with the incidence of homosexuality running in families.

[edit] Publications

  • Pillard RC, Rose RM, Sherwood M. Plasma testosterone levels in homosexual men. Arch Sex Behav. 1974 Sep;3(5):453-8. PMID: 4415098
  • Bailey JM, Pillard RC. A genetic study of male sexual orientation. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1991 Dec;48(12):1089-96. PMID: 1845227
  • Tuttle GE, Pillard RC. Sexual orientation and cognitive abilities. Arch Sex Behav. 1991 Jun;20(3):307-18. PMID: 2059149
  • Pillard RC, Weinrich JD. Evidence of familial nature of male homosexuality. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1986 Aug;43(8):808-12. PMID: 3729676
  • Pillard RC, Poumadere J, Carretta RA. A family study of sexual orientation. Arch Sex Behav. 1982 Dec;11(6):511-20. PMID: 6760832
  • Pillard RC, Poumadere J, Carretta RA. Is homosexuality familial? A review, some data, and a suggestion. Arch Sex Behav. 1981 Oct;10(5):465-75. PMID: 7032464
  • Dawood K, Pillard RC, Horvath C, Revelle W, Bailey JM. Familial aspects of male homosexuality. Arch Sex Behav. 2000 Apr;29(2):155-63. PMID: 10842723
  • Bailey JM, Pillard RC, Dawood K, Miller MB, Farrer LA, Trivedi S, Murphy RL. A family history study of male sexual orientation using three independent samples. Behav Genet. 1999 Mar;29(2):79-86. PMID: 10405456
  • Pillard RC, Bailey JM. Human sexual orientation has a heritable component. Hum Biol. 1998 Apr;70(2):347-65. PMID: 9549243
  • Pillard RC, Bailey JM. A biologic perspective on sexual orientation. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1995 Mar;18(1):71-84. PMID: 7761309
  • Snyder PJ, Weinrich JD, Pillard RC. Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men. Arch Sex Behav. 1994 Aug;23(4):433-51. PMID: 7993184
  • Pillard RC, Rosen LR, Meyer-Bahlburg H, Weinrich JD, Feldman JF, Gruen R, Ehrhardt AA. Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES). Psychosom Med. 1993 Nov-Dec;55(6):485-91. PMID: 8310108
  • Weinrich JD, Snyder PJ, Pillard RC, Grant I, Jacobson DL, Robinson SR, McCutchan JA. A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation grid in two disparate samples. Arch Sex Behav. 1993 Apr;22(2):157-68. PMID: 8476335
  • Bailey JM, Pillard RC, Neale MC, Agyei Y. Heritable factors influence sexual orientation in women. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1993 Mar;50(3):217-23. PMID: 8439243
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